Post 2007 performaces are listed here:

http://neilleonardevents.blogspot.com/

Selected pre-pre 2007 performaces are listed below:

Date: July 12
City: Padova, Italy
Venue: Rubano Art Festival

Event: Performance with Giuliano Perin Ensemble

Date: July 7
City: Padova, Italy
Venue: Tindaci

Event: Performance with Giuliano Perin Ensemble
Address: via Dante 17
Contact: spaziotindaci@tindaci.com

Date: July 5
City: Padova, Italy
Venue: Caffè Pedrocchi

Event: Un Anno di Jazz a Padova” voluta da Centro Porsche Padova e Caffè Pedrocchi

Giuliano Perin "Passion and Reason" CD release concert with Leonard (sax), Perin (vibes), Marcello Tonolo (piano), Luciano Milanese (bass), Massimo Chiarella (drums). The CD also features Dave Samuels (marimba)

Link: www.padovajazz.com

Date: July 5
City: Padova, Italy
Venue: TBA

Event: Performance with Giuliano Perin Ensemble

Date: July 1
City: La Spezia, Italy
Venue: Pop-eye festival

Event: Set by Neil Leonard and Anthony Baldino, Jess Hewitt, Pierce Warnecke (Students of the Music Synthesis Department, Berklee College of Music)

Date: June 30
City: Ameglia - La Spezia, Italy
Venue: La Marrana id Montemarcello

Event: Sound performance and installation

Date: June 29
Time: , 5:00 PM
City: La Spezia, Italy
Venue: Palazzina delle Arti

Event: Sound performance
Set by Neil Leonard and Anthony Baldino, Jess Hewitt, Pierce Warnecke (Students of the Music Synthesis Department, Berklee College of Music)

Date: June 28
City: Siena, Italy
Venue: Cattedrale di San Galgano

Event: Sguardi Sonori Festival of Media and Time Based Art
Sound Installation by Gary Chang and Neil Leonard

Date: June 26-27
City: Isola di San Servolo, Venezia, Italy
Venue: Chiesa di Santo Spirito

Event: Sguardi Sonori Festival of Media and Time Based Art
Concert works by Neil Leonard, Pamela Z, Phil Niblock & Katherine Liberovskaya, Pamela Z, Neil Leonard , Amnon Wolman, John Duncan, Steve Piccolo & Gak Sato, Duprass (Ido Govrin & Liora Bedford), Cardiotest with Fathi Hassan, Alessandro Pintus e Morena Tamborrino, Mauro Sambo & Ignazio Lago, Patrizia Mattioli

Sound Installation by Gary Chang, Chiesa di San Servolo

Date: June 21
City: Benevento, Italy
Venue: Piazza Santa Sofia

Event: Sguardi Sonori Festival of Media and Time Based Art
Concert works by Neil Leonard and Anthony Baldino, Jess Hewitt, Pierce Warnecke (Students of the Music Synthesis Department, Berklee College of Music)
Sound Installation by Gary Chang, Chiesa di Santo Spirito, 5:00 PM

Date: June 20
City: Rome, Italy
Venue: Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Teatro Studio, Roma

Event: Sguardi Sonori Festival of Media and Time Based Art
Concert works by Neil Leonard, Olivia Block, Pamela Z,
Steve Piccolo & Gak Sato
Sound Installation "Sanctuaries" by Gary Chang

Date: May 27
City: Padova
Venue: Giornata dell'Ascolto

Event: Music for dance performance with The Simple Company organized by the University of Padova

Date: Saturday,May 19th
City: Street Stone Ridge, NY
Venue: SUMMER JAZZ SERIES at Jack and Luna's cafe
3928 Main Street Stone Ridge, NY

Shows at 7:30 and 9:00 PM please check details at jackandlunas.com

Neil Leonard, sax
Chris Bowman, drums
Mike Kull, piano
Charlie Kniceley, bass

Date: May 5
City: Boston
Venue: Cloud Space

Event: Boston Cyberarts Festival performance of saxophone, electronics and video with Kenwood Dennard

Date: April 29
City: Boston
Venue: Berklee College of Music

Event: Boston Cyberart Festival, bass clarinet performance for a world premiere by Olivia Block. Solo performance of original music for saxophone and electronics.

Selected Performaces 2006:

American Composers Forum
Sonic Circuits Festival
Boston-Haifa exchange

Solo saxophone/electronic performances/lectures at:

Tel Aviv Biennale for New Music
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
November 3

Haifa University
Department of Music
November 7

Musrara School of Photography, New Media and Music
Jerusalem
November 8

Works by Chen, Keren-Huss, Miller, Leonard, Shapira, Wolman
Fenway Recital Hall
Berklee College of Music 
22 Fenway Road
Boston, Mass
Sunday, December 3rd 2006, at 7:30 pm.
Free Admission
Jonathan Chen – violin; Neil Leonard – saxophone; Margaret Phillips – contrabassoon; Anne Rhodes - Voice

Works by Chen, Keren-Huss, Leonard, Shapira, Wolman
Issue Project Room
400 Carroll Street (between Bond and Nevins)
Brooklyn, NY 
Tuesday, December 5th 2006, at 8 pm.
10$ Admission

Dave Bryant Quartet (Plus)

Friday, October 6 at 8:00
Dave Bryant (keyboards)
James Merenda (alto saxophone)
John Turner (bass)
Eric Rosenthal (drums)
with Special Guests
Neil Leonard (soprano saxophone and bass clarinet)
Marc Riordan (percussion)

The Brookline Tai Chi Center is at
1615 Beacon Street in Brookline
(At the corner of Washington and Beacon St.)
suggested donation: $10 ($5 for students)
proceeds benefit BTC's non-profit mission
www.brooklinetaichi.com

Sono Qui (I Am Here)
Galleria Pack
Milano, Italia
Exhibition by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons in collaboration with Neil Leonard
Live performance at the opening featuring Neil Leonard, saxophones; Gadi Sassoon, laptop/turntables; Ernesto Rodriguez, Cuban percussion
June 21, 2006

Interaction Ensamble
Spazio Tindaci
Comune di Padova
Jazz concert for city-wide ‘Notte Bianca’ festival
Neil Leonard, saxophones/bass clarinet; Giuliano Perin, vibraphone; Franco Leone, bass
July 1, 2006

Giuliano Perin Duo
Le Notti a Colori di Luglio, Serata Jazz,
Comune di Cerea, Parco Grigoli
Jazz concert
Giuliano Perin, vibraphone; Ermanno Maria Signorelli, guitar
Neil Leonard, saxophones
July 8, 2006

Aiutiamo la Pace
Cartiera Papale
Provincia di Ascoli Piceno
Performance for Blog on Rimbaud exhibit
Neil Leonard, saxophone; Dionisio Capuano, electronics; Carlo Fatigoni, poetry
July 22, 2006

Flexibility
SUVERART Festival
Chiostro di San Francesco, Comune di Suvereto
concerto jazz del vibrafonista Giuliano Perin Quartetto
with guest Neil Leonard
Giuliano Perin, vibraphone; Neil Leonard, saxophone; Marcello Tonolo, piano; Luciano Milanese, bass; Massimo Chiarella, drums
August 3, 2006

Selected Performaces 2005:

SONIC ARTS AT GASP

io casino - electronics, bass and voice
Neil Leonard - woodwinds and electronics
Anne Rhodes - voice
Jonathan Chen - violin

GASP Gallery
Sunday, 18th December at 7-8 pm
362-4Boylston St., Brookline, MA

$10 suggested donation
Reservations recommended
617.731.2500
info@g-a-s-p.net
http://www397.pair.com/gasp1/
GASP is one block from the Brookline Hills stop on the MBTA ‘D’ Riverside line.

Dave Bryant Quartet at Longy School of Music
One Follen Street, Cambridge
Sunday, December 4th at 7:00 PM
Free Admission
 
Dave Bryant – piano
Neil Leonard – saxophone and electronics
John Turner – bass
Curt Newton – drums

Opening the program will be a brief (but wonderful) performance by Longy faculty Leslie Amper performing the solo piano music of William Grant Still.

December - Sound in Installations with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

Museum of the African Diaspora
Grand Opening Exhibit:
Dispersed: African Legacy/New World Reality
works by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Mildred Howard, and Marepe (Marcos Reis Peixoto)
November 26, 2005 - March 12, 2006
685 Mission Street, San Francisco, California
www.moadsf.org/index.html

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
Inaugural Exhibit:
Bojeo: Traces in a Fragmented History
On display through January 2005
104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA
www.dubois.fas.harvard.edu

Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
November 26 – December 31, 2005
3550 North Miami Avenue, Miami, FL
www.bernicesteinbaumgallery.com

Julie Saul Gallery
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Backyard Dreams
December 15, 2005-February 11, 2006
535 West 22 Street
6 Floor
New York, NY 10011
www.saulgallery.com

Wesleyan University
Neil Leonard: Saxophone and Electronics
A concert of saxophone and interactive electronics based on real time explorations of George Russell's Lydian Chromatic concept of tonal organization.
Date: Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Time: 08:00 PM -
Location: Memorial Chapel,
Sponsor: Music Department
Admission: Free
Event URL:
For more information: 860-685-3355

New England Skyscraper Project, conducted by Butch Morris.

Zeitgeist Gallery, 1353 Cambridge Street, Inman Square, Cambridge, MA.
September 23, 2005: 9:30

Central Square Worlds Fair, featuring The Mass. Ave., Central Square., MA.
September 25, 2005: Noon

Neil Leonard, reeds, Julee Avallone, flute, Joe Albano, bass clarinet, Todd Brunel, clarinet, Junko Simons, violoncello, Jonathan LaMaster, violin, Haruko Horii, violin, Kaethe Hostetter, viola, David Lee electric guitar, David Zox, double bass, Gary Fieldman, percussion. See www.zeitgeist-gallery.org for more det ails.

Neil Leonard-Gadi Sassoon Cybernetic Duo:
vibration ~ inscription ~ transmission
poly-algorithmik acuzmatic beats, live electronics, woodwinds

Wednesday June 1, 8:00 pm
Berklee College of Music
Fenway Recital Hall
22 Fenway Road, Boston
Admission: Free!
Wheelchair accessible

Callithumpian Consort
Beyond the edge of improv
New Music by Neil Leonard and Bhob Rainey
Friday, May 6, 2005, 7:00pm
Zeitgeist Gallery
1353 Cambridge Street, Inman Square
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617) 876-6060
Suggested donation $10

Neil Leonard presents a new work that draws on an improvised language he developed in ensembles with Marshall Allen, Don Byron, and Jamaladeen Tacuma.

Bhob Rainey presents computer/tape music, including a work based around a found wire spool from 1951. Musique concrete, Americana-style.

Leonards work will be performed by Dylan Thomas Chmura-Moore, Jeanne Drumm, Michael Norsworthy, Mimi Rabson, Jessi Rosinski, Benjamin Schwartz

From Freex to Geex
The Sonic Circuits XII: International Electronic Music Festival
Saturday April 23, 7:30 pm
Berklee College of Music
Fenway Recital Hall
22 Fenway Road, Boston

Music by Berklee College of Music faculty, students, alumni with special guest Vjs Clitch Crew. Composers performers include: Aliens At Home (Gadi Sassoon and Rob Brown), Jorrit Dijkstra, Josh Decker, Jose Hinestrosa, Tim Leeman, Dave Linnenbank, Neil Leonard, Aiko Oi, Andres Velasquez and Pierce Warnecke.

Neil Leonard and Friends in Concert
Thursday March 24, 7:30 pm
Berklee College of Music
David Friend Recital Hall
921 Boylston St., Boston

Neil Leonard presents an evening of his music performed by an all-star ensemble. Leonard and legendary pianist Oriente Lopez (Director of Afrocuba and featured on Charlie Haden's current Grammy winning recording Land Of The Sun) perform duets. Guitar virtuoso Apostolos Paraskevas performs Leonard's Mil Maneras Para Decir Adios (featured in Dakar, Senegal, 2004.) Benjamin Schwartz performs Leonard's Three Riffs for Five Strings for solo cello. Top-shelf players from the Callithumpian Consort premiere Leonard's Meditations on the Sea (Michael Norsworthy, Jessi Rosinski, Ben Russell, Benjamin Schwartz, Jordan Voelker, Dylan Chmura-Moore).

Sonic Circuits XII
International Electronic Music Festival
Tuesday March 29, 7:30 pm
Berklee College of Music
David Friend Recital Hall
921 Boylston St., Boston

Neil Leonard presents an evening of cutting edge electronic music including his Pearls Before Swine with guest artist Michael Norsworthy on bass clarinet. Leonard performs in a cyber-duo with master drummer Kenwood Dennard. Not to be missed!

SONIC ARTS AT
GALLERY ARTISTS STUDIO PROJECTS
curated by Neil Leonard

Phill Niblock – Sound Installation/Performance with Neil Leonard (reeds)
Sat. March 19; 7-11 pm
GASP Gallery
362 Boylston Street, Brookline, MA 02445

GASP is pleased to announce its spring sound art series featuring new works by established artists and composers Ron Kuivila, Phill Niblock and Amnon Wolman. Phill Niblock presents an evening of thick loud drones of music that fill the gallery while he simultaneously presents films, videos, and computer generated images that float through time.

Luanne Stovall
wet dreams: new pulse~patterns
Paintings by Luanne Stovall
Sound composition by Neil Leonard
with Natacha Sochat, Noah Dubreuil, Penney Pinette, Catherine Tutter

MFA Thesis Exhibition
January 18–30, 2005
Tisch and Koppelman Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20, 5:30–8:30 pm

March 19-April 23
The A Gallery
The School of Fashion Design
136 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116

Tour of Sweden
Jan. 10-17 2005

Kulturverket, Halmstad
I performed a set of original solo compositions for alto saxophone, bass clarinet, Virus B synth and software written in Javascript and MaxMSP. Swedish composer/saxophonist Henrik Frisk performed the first set processing his tenor saxophone using custom software.

Göteborg University, School of Music
Henrik Frisk and I played our respective sets. Åke Parmerud and Per Anders Nilson performed a closing set with their electroacoustic trio.

Panora Theater, Malmö
I played one set. Frisk, Nilson and I performed a second set as a trio.

Selected Performaces 2004:

CALLITHUMPIAN CONSORT SONIC EXPERIMENT SERIES
Zeitgeist Gallery
1353 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
$10 suggested donation

Friday, November 5th at 7pm
ZORN (EXTENDED PROGRAM!!)
The Callithumpian Consort and guests perform compositions by eclectic composer/improviser John Zorn, including "Cobra", "Duras", "Cat o' Nine Tails", and tunes from the Masada book.

CALLITHUMPIAN CONSORT SONIC EXPERIMENT SERIES

Zeitgeist Gallery
1353 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
$10 suggested donation

Friday, November 5th at 7pm
ZORN (EXTENDED PROGRAM!!)
The Callithumpian Consort and guests perform compositions by eclectic composer/improviser John Zorn, including "Cobra", "Duras", "Cat o' Nine Tails", and tunes from the Masada book.

October 1 , 2004, 7:00pm
I Soloisti di Callithumpia
With Guests
Neil Leonard, bass clarinet & electronics and
Matt Ingalls, clarinet
Zeitgeist Gallery
1353 Cambridge Street, Inman Square
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617) 876-6060

Program:

• LIGETI - Etudes Book II (Stephen Drury, piano)
• LACY - Saxophone Etudes (Jorrit Dijkstra, saxophone)
• CAGE - Child of Tree (Timothy Feeney, percussion)
• DRUCKMAN - Valentine (Aaron Baird, contrabass)
• BERIO - les mots sont alles (Benjamin Schwartz, cello)
• LEONARD - Pearls Before Swine - for bass clarinet and electronics (Neil Leonard, bcl. & electronics)
• SCIARRINO - Ai limiti della notte (Wendy Richman, viola),
• INGALLS - Solo for clarinet (Matt Ingalls, clarinet)

Leonard sound for Magdalena Campos' installation 'Mil Maneras Para Decir Adios' was included in the US representation in DAK'ART, Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain, Senegal, with sponsorship from the US State Department.

SHOCK AND AWE: THE SONGS OF RANDY NEWMAN
Leonard featured on alto/tenor saxes, clarinet, flute and as arranger of Newman's Mr. President ( Have Pity on the Working Man)

Hal Willner, Artist in Residence - UCLA

Featuring: Randy Newman, David Hidalgo (of Los Lobos), Bill Frisell, Vic Chesnutt, Maurice Seezer, Gavin Friday, Robin Holcomb, Stan Ridgway, Chris Spedding, Steve Berlin (of Los Lobos), Oren Bloedow, Elysian Fields, Van Dyke Parks, Ed Harcourt, Pete Thomas, Perla Batalla, Julie Christensen, Jimmy Fallon, Ellen Greene, Victoria Williams, Steve Weisberg, Neil Leonard, Bob Neuwirth, Sebastian Steinberg, Taj Mahal, E (of the Eels), Howard Tate, Jon Brion, John Ventimiglia (from The Sopranos), Jennifer Charles and Rip Torn

Sat, Jan 24 at 8pm, Royce Hall, UCLA, 2004

NEIL LEONARD’S GARDEN OF REEDS
FEATURING ELLIOTT LEVIN & DAVE BRYANT
Wed. Jan, 28, 8:00 -11:30 pm, 2004

ZEITGEIST GALLERY
1353 Cambridge St. Inman Sq. Cambridge
617.876.6060 - zeitgeist-gallery.org

Neil Leonard - sax, electronics ; Elliott Levin - sax, flute, poetry (Cecil Taylor, Harold Melvin); Charles Cohen - Buchla music easel; Dave Bryant - keyboards (Ornette Coleman) Katt Hernandez - violin; Ken Field - alto sax (Birdsongs of the Mesozoic); John Turner - bass, live electronics (J. Geils, White Heat); Jerome Deupree - drums (Morphine, Either/Orchestra )

NEIL LEONARD ENSEMBLE
featuring JAMAALADEEN TACUMA
Keyboardist Dave Bryant and drummer Chris Bowman also Birdsongs of the Mesozoic Era Berklee Performance Center, March 22, 2004

Selected Performances 2003:

Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Japan
sound for site specific outdoor media installation
with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
(summer) 2003

La Marrana Arte Ambientale
Montemarcello, Italy
sound for site specific outdoor media installation
with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
(summer) 2003

An Evening of New Music at Berklee
NEIL LEONARD ENSEMBLE featuring
bassist JAMAALADEEN TACUMA and
the BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC
The Berklee Performance Center, Monday, February 3 at 8PM, 2003

Leonard is featured on processed saxophone, joined by ground breaking electric bassist JAMAALADEEN TACUMA (Ornette Coleman, James Carter, Jeff Beck), keyboardist Dave Bryant (Ornette Coleman) and drummer Chris Bowman (Jon Hassell).

“the intensity of the new rhythm and blues that they (JAMAALADEEN TACUMA and James Carter) played! … I almost cried. … the music is alive! “ (Cecil Taylor)

Sonic Circuits X International Electronic Music Festival
Berklee College of Music
Co-Director (spring)

Selected Perfomances, 2002:

Mee Young Choi, Senior Recital, Berklee College of Music
Lawrence and Alma Berk Recital Hall, 1140 Boylston Street
Monday, November 25, 2002, 7:00 pm
Performing Leonard's "Three Riffs for Five Strings", cello and live electronics
Free Admission.

The Ken Field Alto Saxophone Project
The Center for Arts in Natick
Saturday, November 2,2002 8:00 pm featuring Neil Leonard, Matt Steckler, Eric Paull, Derek VanBeever

David Bryant Ensemble
Longy School of Music, Hall 1W
Wednesday, October 16, 2002 8:00 pm
David Bryant Quintet with Bryant (piano/synthesizer), Leonard (alto saxophone/electronics), John Turner (Bass/synthesizer), Curt Newton (drums), Eric Rosenthal(drums).

Mee Young Choi, Recital
Berklee College of Music
Friday, September 27, 2002, 4:00 pm
Performing Leonard's "Three Riffs for Five Strings", cello and live electronics.

Sonic Circuits IX International Electronic
Music Festival at Berklee College of Music
Saturday, May 4, 8:00 PM, 2002 Performing
Parabola with David Bryant (Minimoog), Anderew Neumann (laptop), Leonard (alto saxophone and live electronics).

Ken Field Alto Saxophone Project, Tremont Theatre
276 Tremont St., with Derek VanBeever/bass, Charlie Kohlhase/a. sax, Neil Leonard/a.sax, Grant Smith/drums. Tuesday April 16, 8:00 PM, 2002